Sentences with phrase «abandoned at birth»

West — a 40 - year - old man who was born with cerebral palsy, abandoned at birth, and raised by state institutions and group homes — told Comer that he has always dreamed about owning his own home.

She had been abandoned at birth and parental responsibility was transferred to them by decree.

The tiny creatures, often abandoned at birth or turned into shelters from accidental litters, have very little hope of growing up and getting adopted but together we can change that.

Nasir is an orphan who mysteriously loses his eye shortly after he's abandoned at birth.

His newest prisoner, 24 - year - old Tony, is the son he abandoned at birth.

Abandoned at birth, his only possession is a strange stone that he believes is the key to his destiny and freedom.

In this regard, as a Primary Investigator for the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, for the last 10 years Dr. Nelson has been studying children in Romania who were abandoned at birth and raised in institutions.

Even a child who was abandoned at birth who subsequently received good care could experience the loss of it's birthmother as traumatic.

My birth father abandoned me at birth though I do not know anything else except that their union was one of love for each other (I just learned that my birth mother was shipped off to a mental hospital where I was born.

He was abandoned at birth.

He is a former singer / songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident.

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they spout off their belief that life begins at conception, and then abandon the babies after birth.

My youngest son was abandoned by his mother at birth and placed in an orphanage because of his diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.

Christians should do their best, as a group, to abandon «Tradition» and «Rules» and move the celebration of Christ's birth to a more appropriate time in the year, and celebrate Christmas at that point.

Examples abound: twins, separated at birth, reunite and conceive a superman child before one is killed by his father (Wagner's Die Walküre); a polygamous American seduces and later abandons an Asian girl and their child (Puccini's Madama Butterfly); through deceit, seduction, and murder a prostitute becomes empress of Rome and finds true love (Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea); to prove the inconstancy of feminine love a cynical aristocrat convinces two young lovers to seduce each other's girlfriend (Mozart's Cosi fan tutte).

The tragic story of losing one of the three babies at birth quickly turned hopeful when another abandoned baby shows up at the hospital at the same time.

4 5 Others have advocated home birth for women at high risk of obstetric complications, 6 7 and trends to abandon risk assessment for home birth are apparent in both Australia8 and the United States.9

With only one option provided, no questions asked and no help provided, frightened young moms are giving birth on their own and then doing the best they know how for their newborn sons and daughters by abandoning them at fire stations, churches, hospitals.

If we had evolved as a species with different mating and child - rearing habits — abandoning our children at birth and moving indiscriminately from partner to partner, like most reptiles — it's likely our brains would be incapable of feeling love.

Even relatives separated at birth shared expressions: The blind young man mentioned above was abandoned by his mother two days after birth and not reunited with her until he was 18 years old, yet they shared at least three facial expressions, which reinforces what Darwin suspected more than 100 years ago.

Holly Anders was abandoned by her mother at birth.

Central to the novel are the stories of Even Grade, a 28 - year - old black man abandoned by his mother at birth; Valuable Korner, a 15 - year - old white girl whose family history holds a trunkful of damning secrets; and Joody Two Sun, an enigmatic obeah woman who sees into the hearts and minds of the townsfolk from her riverside camp on the outskirts of town.

Though she was abandoned soon after her birth in 1873, at the age of 16 Teresita dies and is resurrected.

Tommy (Estimated date of birth 01.02.2006) and Twinkle (Estimated date of birth 12.03.2004) were cruelly abandoned at Sighetu Marma?iei.

On February 15, our volunteers came to the rescue of an abandoned and malnourished black coat (term that means an elephant seal that is less than 6 weeks old and still has his original birth «coat») at Lawson's Landing in northern Marin County.

According to the museum, «New York producers Klaw & Erlanger mounted the untitled project at virtually the same time that D. W. Griffith began his racist epic The Birth of a Nation, but they abandoned the seven reels of exposed film in postproduction, leaving buried within it unique photographic documentation of its black cast and white crew on the set.»

The disorder may arise in cases where the child is so ill at birth that sufficient nurturing is not possible, if the parent rejects the child, when there is sexual or physical abuse before age 5, the child is abandoned, or otherwise abused or neglected.

Birth mothers are concerned that their child will not understand the reasons for the adoption and may have grown up feeling rejected and abandoned, or that their child will think poorly of them, or perhaps be angry and resentful at having been given up for adoption.

The Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) is the only randomized controlled trial of foster care for children who were abandoned at or shortly after birth and placed into institutional care.

>> I expect the Duchess of Cambridge was thrilled that the tradition of having the British Home Secretary present at royal births has been abandoned.